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l' Il W. H. HENDERSON. STOVE PIPE SHELF.

Patented Oct. 14, 1884.

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WVILLIAM H. HENDERSON, OF GREENXVOOD, INDIANA.

STOVE PlPE SHELF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,396, dated October14:, 1884.

Application filed Jul 1Q, 1883.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HENDER soN, of the town of Greenwood,county of J ohnson, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Stove- Pipe Shelves, of which the following is aspeciiication.

The object of my said invention is to provide an improved shelf forstove-pipes, which may be heated by the products of combustion duringtheir passage through the pipe whereto said shelf is attached. Thisobject is accomplished by constructing a hollow shelf by mounting ashelf-plate on a sheet-iron bracket, and forming an opening in the pipeat the desired position for said shelf, and mounting said shelf on saidpipe over said opening, as will be presently more fully described.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figurel is a perspective view of a stove with a pipe embodying my saidinvention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of a portion of a stovepipe with myimproved shelf attached thereto; Fig. 3, a vertical sectional view,looking toward the right from the dotted line 5; Fig. 4, a centralvertical section thereof on the dotted line y and Fig. 5, a horizontalsectional view, looking downwardly from the dotted line 00 x.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the stove, B thestove-pipe, and O my improved shelf. The stove A forms no part of thisinvention, and therefore needs no further description. The pipe B is notdissimilar to ordinary stove-pipes, except that a portion of its frontis cut away, forming an opening, b, in this side thereof at the desiredelevation for a shelf. It is also provided with a damper, B, preferablylocated just above or directly in front of the shelf, in order that theheat may, by turning said damper properly, be more effectually drivenunder the shelf, and thereby regulate the heating capacity of the shelfto some extent. The shelfG is preferably of sheet metal, and is mountedon the top edge of the bracket part 0. Said bracket is inclined backfrom the outer edge of the shelf to the stove-pipe, bringing its rearedges even with the rear edge of the shelf, thus (No model.)

forming what is in effect a hollow shelf with one side open. This sideis then attached to the stove-pipe over the opening Z1 therein,

said opening being usually made of substantially the same size as theopen side of the shelf, so that the corresponding edges of shelf andopening can be attached directly to each other, especially at thebottom,.and thus allow the soot and cinders that become lodged withinsaid shelf to fall back down the stovepipe, instead of filling up theshelf, as is the case with other constructions of hollow shelves.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The shelf (one or more)being attached to the pipe, as shown, the products of combustion, inpassing up the pipe B, will pass through the opening I), and thus heatthe shelf 0 and the vessel or vessels thereon much more quickly thanthey otherwise would. By means of the damper B the degree of heat may bevaried considerably, as when it is turned so as to. nearly stop the fluethe heat will of necessity be more intense under the shelf than when theflue is open and a free 1: assage for the products of combustion thusafforded.

I am aware that hollow shelves have before been attached to stove-pipes,and an opening formed in the side of the stovepipe for the passage ofheat from said stove-pipe into said shelf; but I am not aware that ahollow shelf has been constructed by having the shelf part mounted upona bracket which is inclined back from the edge of said shelf part, andan open side thus formed, nor that the edges of said open side have everbeen attached directly to the edges of a corresponding opening in oneside of the stove-pipe in the manner shown and described herein.

Having thus fully described my said inven tion, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the stove-pipe B, having a portion of its frontside cut away, forming an opening, I), the shelf 0, attached to theupper edge of said opening and supported by the bracket 0, and saidbracket 0 attached at its edges to the sides of the opening in thestove-pipe B, and having the shelf 0 attached to its top, allsubstantially as shown and specified.

2. The combination of the stove-pipe B,

having a portion of its front side cut away, In witness whereof I havehereunto set my forming an opening, I), the shelf 0, attached to handandseal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this said stove-pipe above saidopening and sup- 80th day of June, A. D. 1883. ported by the bracket 0,said bracket 0 at- 5 tached to,the stove-pipe at the sides of theWILLIAM H. HENDERSON. [I]. 8.]

opening therein, and having the shelf O at K tached to its top, and thedamper B, located in presence of in the pipe B at a point abovethe-shelf 0, sub- E. W. BRADFORD, stantially as shown and described, andfor the V CHAS. L. THURBER.

1o purposes set forth.

